Taylor L. Vandick ’16 performs with the Radcliffe Pitches at Femme Fest on Sunday afternoon. Femme Fest celebrated the beginning of Women's Week at Harvard with a gallery of female art and a keynote address by Stephanie R. Khurana, co-master of Cabot House.

Attendees of all ages gathered in the pews, crowded in the aisles, and stood at the back of Memorial Church as the Harvard University Choir alternated between carols, hymns, and psalms read by community members during the 105th Annual Christmas Carol Service on Monday evening.

Attendees of all ages gather in Memorial Church for the 105th Annual Christmas Carol Service on Monday evening. According to the event program, the liturgy has remained largely the same as when the carol service began in 1910.

Because of classical music’s long-standing history of assimilation within the academic structure at Harvard, small groups of classical musicians have networks of support and paths to performance, whereas no similar systems for musicians in other genres seem to exist.